Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1835-1905
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WAYWART, adj. Also wawart, wayart. Sc. forms of Eng. wayward, disobedient, perverse, fitful; of things: out-of-the-way, untoward.Rnf. 1835 D. Webster Rhymes 32:
I hear, by colley's waywart growl, That black destruction's gath'ring round us.Lth. 1858 Dark Night 213, 232:
He's sic a wawart, auld-fashioned vratch, that there's nae gettin only wilshuch thing owre his throat. . . . I dinna like nane o' thae wawart things mysel'.Edb. 1905 J. Lumsden Croonings 148:
Here life was seen, man's wayart life.
